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Good luck merenz. I hope that this forum can help you to achieve your ambition!

Better late than never to thank Listenup, Wintonian and others who discussed 13....

Greetings from Phuket. For reasons that may be self evident, I made a late start on this. I’ve filled a lot of the grid and have a fair idea of the theme, but seem to be unable to get started on the NW corner. A gentle nudge for 1d or ac would be appreciated if there’s anyone still there. Ta.

planks - greetings from cold, wet and windy England.

1a - 4 letter word for 'rabbit' (slang) around 4 letter word for 'hare' as in 'to hurry'.

Thanks drxx, I’d never heard of one of those. At least here the rain is warm, hope it improves for you!

Not much chance of that planks - enjoy the warmth while you can.

I thought this was very good indeed. As Merenz did, I spotted the theme early by figuring out the redundant words in the down clues. Took me a ridiculously long time to figure out the entry method for the ‘too long’ clues, but was very happy with the way it all came together when I did. Top notch.

All done. As a child of the sixties I was a huge fan of the theme. I’m not sure I quite understand the treatment of the central cell, but never mind. Very enjoyable.

I have been following the site hoping for post that will unblock this puzzle for me. In spite of all of the hints I cannot fathom the theme nor the method of entry for the overlong answers. Please can somebody help with a not-too-cryptic reply? I have the answers to 21ac 16ac and a good place to begin might be some clues for how to enter these. Hopefully that will get me going again.

Thanks Planks @78. As a hopeless cold solver I was about to abandon this, as I would have done last week without Meursault's (un)fortunate slips of the typing finger, and did the previous week, but your mention of the sixties gave me a PDM for the title, and I'm over halfway there now. None of the thematic words in the down clues make any sense yet, but to Catkin@79, without knowing the hints I've got away with the long entries so far just squashing em up.